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How I Cut My Cloud SQL Bill by 70% After Discovering 0.8% CPU Utilization

The Cloud SQL Bill That Taught Me Everything About Over-Provisioning My database was running at 0.8% CPU utilisation. I discovered this three months after going live, while investigating why our GCP bill seemed higher than expected for our traffic volume. The number was so low I thought there was

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